Us reloaders have access to hornady's xtp-hp and Speer gold dots hp. I have 4.25" barrel 9mm and trying to decide between which of these bullets to handload in 124gr version. I heard that hornady's xtp's generally penetrate deeper but with less expansion compared to the gold dots. Which bullet would you handload for self-defense? Don't really care about their price difference as I'm willing to pay more if it's a better self-defense bullets that's going to save my life. Thanks for the feedback!
The only way to get gold dots right now is 32.00 a 20 loaded ammo. As a component Speer says no way, so your statement is false.
Shot a lot of deer with a 210 grain XTP out of a 41 mag. Currently have 124 XTP, 158 XTP, 200 and 230 XTP’s loaded for defensive purposes. If you are going to be shooting through windshields and such maybe the GD is worth it, but if you put a couple XTP’s in the boiler room it probably isn’t going to matter.
